LegalizeThe African Swine Fever (Wales) Order 2003
Made: 13th December 2003
Coming into force: 15th December 2003
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Title, commencement and application
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Interpretation
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Exemptions
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Notification of the disease
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Measures while suspicion of the disease is being investigated
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Further measures when a notice has been served under article 5
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Measures when the disease is confirmed on a holding
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Measures when the disease is confirmed in a slaughterhouse, knacker’s yard or on a means of transport
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Measures that apply in respect of holdings from or to which the disease may have been transmitted
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Temporary Control Zone
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Protection and surveillance zones
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Cleansing and disinfection
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Feral pig investigation zone
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Measures when the disease is confirmed in a feral pig
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Vaccines
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Compliance
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Powers of Inspectors and Veterinary Inspectors
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Enforcement
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Revocations
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SCHEDULE 1 — MEASURES THAT APPLY IN PROTECTION AND SURVEILLANCE ZONES
PART I — Measures that apply in a protection zone
Movement Restrictions
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Subject to paragraph 2 below, no person may move or transport any pig on any public or private road (other than, when necessary the service roads within the holding) within the protection zone.
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The prohibition in paragraph 1 above does not apply —
- (a) if the movement is in accordance with paragraphs 6 and 7;
- (b) to the transport of pigs that were loaded on to a vehicle outside the protection zone and are transported through that zone without the vehicle being loaded or unloaded in the zone;
- (c) to the movement or transport of pigs from outside the protection zone, with a view to immediate slaughter in a slaughterhouse situated inside the protection zone, provided that movement or transport has been licensed by a veterinary inspector or an inspector in accordance with the directions of a veterinary inspector.
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No person may move out of the protection zone any vehicle which has been used to transport pigs within the zone, unless—
- (a) it has been cleansed and disinfected and, if necessary, an acaricide has been applied under the direction and supervision of an inspector; and
- (b) the movement has been licensed by an inspector; or
- (c) it has been driven through the zone without being loaded or unloaded.
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The occupier of a holding within the protection zone must ensure that no other species of domestic animal enters or leaves that holding unless the movement is authorised by a licence issued by a veterinary inspector or an inspector acting in accordance with the directions of a veterinary inspector.
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No person may remove any pig semen, ova or embryos from a holding within the protection zone.
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No person may move any pig in the protection zone off the holding on which it is kept for at least 40 days after the completion of the preliminary cleansing and disinfection of, and of any application of an acaricide to, the infected holding. Thereafter no person may so move any pig unless licensed to do so by a veterinary inspector or an inspector acting in accordance with the directions of a veterinary inspector.
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Where—
- (a) a holding has been within a protection zone for longer than 40 days as a result of further outbreaks of the disease within the zone; and
- (b) and this has given rise to welfare or other problems in keeping the pigs on the holding,
pigs may be moved off the holding provided that any such movement is authorised by a licence issued by a veterinary inspector or an inspector acting in accordance with the directions of a veterinary inspector.
Reduction of periods of waiting
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If the Chief Veterinary Officer is satisfied following a sampling and testing programme that the disease no longer exists on the holding in question, the period of 40 days referred to in paragraphs 6 and 7 above may by notice be reduced to 30 days.
Notification of pig deaths on a holding
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The occupier of any holding within the protection zone must notify the Divisional Veterinary Manager about any dead or diseased pig on his or her holding.
Bio-security
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The person in charge of any vehicle or equipment used for the transport of pigs, other livestock or material which may have been contaminated with the disease (for example, carcases, feed, manure, and slurry) must ensure that it is cleansed and disinfected or otherwise treated as soon as possible after use and before it is used again, under the direction and supervision of a veterinary inspector or of an inspector acting in accordance with the directions of a veterinary inspector.
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No person may enter or leave any holding within the protection zone wearing clothing or footwear which is visibly contaminated with mud, slurry, animal faeces, droppings or excretions or any other similar matter except that such person may cleanse and disinfect the outer surfaces of his or her footwear on entering or leaving those premises.
PART II — Measures that apply in a Surveillance Zone
Movement restrictions
Movement of pigs
Reduction of periods of waiting
Bio-security
Notification of deaths of pigs on a holding
SCHEDULE 2 — MEASURES THAT APPLY IN AN INFECTED AREA ESTABLISHED UNDER ARTICLE 14
PART I — Measures that apply to holdings in the infected area
Records of pigs
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The occupier of a holding within the infected area must prepare, under the direction of a veterinary inspector, a record by category of pigs on the holding and must ensure that the record is kept up to date and provided, on request, to an inspector. In the case of holdings where pigs are not kept inside, the first record may be based on an estimate.
Isolation of pigs
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The occupier must ensure that —
- (a) all the pigs on the holding are restricted to their living quarters or to some other part of the holding where they can be isolated from feral pigs; and
- (b) feral pigs are prevented from gaining access to any material that might come into contact with the pigs on the holding.
Movement of pigs
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No person may move a pig on to or off the holding unless licensed to do so by a veterinary inspector or an inspector acting in accordance with the directions of a veterinary inspector.
Bio-security
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Dead or diseased pigs
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Feral pigs
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PART II — Measures that apply in the infected area
Export of pigs, semen, ova or embryos from the infected area
Contact with feral pigs
Signed
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales
D. Elis-Thomas — The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly — 2003-12-10
Signed
Ben Bradshaw — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — 2003-12-13
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1981 c. 22. See section 86(1) for the definitions of “the Ministers” and “the Minister”. Functions of “the Ministers” so far as exercisable by the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). Functions of “the Ministers” so far as exercisable by the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Wales, were transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141) and were then transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).
[^f00002]: S.I. 1998/463.
[^f00003]: S.I. 1978/32 as amended.
[^f00004]: S.I. 1986/1510 as amended
[^f00005]: S.I. 2001/880, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.
[^f00006]: S.I. 1980/145.
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Editorial notes
[^key-6444997e4e9c7de777a4b4017418b841]: Order revoked (14.8.2014) by The Diseases of Swine Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1894), reg. 1 (1)(c), Sch. 5 (with reg. 4(1))
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